The Bureau of Land Management, for example, just announced plans to rescind a Biden-era rule that placed conservation on equal footing with other uses of federal land. Should the legislation — which passed the House on September 3 and is now before the Senate — become law, resource management plans nationwide could be at risk. “Hundreds of resource management plans that have been finalized since 1996 will never have technically taken effect,” says Justin Meuse, government relations director for The Wilderness Society. A longtime Wiseman resident, he fears scuttling the plan will open the door to a transfer of federal land to the state. It could potentially revert to resource management plans approved in 1986 and 1991, over the objections of six tribal councils.